FriendlyId is the "Swiss Army bulldozer" of slugging and permalink plugins for Ruby on Rails. It allows you to create pretty URL's and work with human-friendly strings as if they were numeric ids for Active Record models.
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Rails - FriendlyId and Conditions
I have a model posts, which belongs_to category (which uses friendly_id). Now i want to list all Posts in an Category. To get the index page i want to use a link like: http://mysite/posts/category/_category_slug_, for that i made the following…
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How to change slug before use in friendly_id gem?
I am trying to convert slugs to normal characters before using it in Friendly ID, but it does not work:
class CompanyJob < ApplicationRecord
extend FriendlyId
def self.convert_slug(title)
n = title.downcase.to_s
n.gsub!…
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Rails not differentiating between two resources nested in the same namespaces
I have two types of products that are nested under the same categories. The routes I have setup are
resources :categories, path: '/', only: [:show] do
resources :subcategories, path: '/', only: [:show] do
resources :amazon_products, path: '/',…
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How to use named routes when using FriendlyId at the root path in Rails
I have a basic Page model in Rails that I'm using with FriendlyId to allow admins to create pages like "/about" or "/contact".
I have the following in my routes file (config/routes.rb) to ensure that the slugs for each page appear at the root of the…
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undefined method `slug_limit=' for friendly_id
When I set the slug_limit on friendly_id as per the documentation in the initializer, I see the following error:
Failure/Error: extend FriendlyId
NoMethodError:
undefined method `slug_limit=' for…
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Friendly_id not working version 5.3 rails 6
I've been working on an app and I installed friendly_id version 5.3 and everything was working.
However, recently working on the app I've found friendly_id not working at all on anything it's been set on. So for this, I'm going to use the…
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How to differentiate between :ids in routes/URL that belong to different models using FriendlyID?
I'm wondering how to generate a url that includes friendly ids for two different models. For example, if you have a post titled 'Rails Tutorial' and belonging to a particular User named 'Michael', and they each use a slug in place of their ID, how…
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Can not transliterate strings with CP850 encoding
For my Blog App I use FriendlyId to generate slugs.
In irb post creation process following message appears:
ArgumentError (Can not transliterate strings with CP850 encoding)
I found out that the error appears because of a space between words in the…
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Rails friendly_id removing non ascii characters for url generation
I want to auto generate the slug based on the title and author of the book, which can be in any language. Using friendly_id with rails, and when there are non-ascii characters, it just removes them. I know I can technically include by encoding them…
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Rails: friendly_id and to_json
I have a collection of model objects that I am trying to return JSON for. E.G
@regions.to_json(:only => [:id, :name ])
that works fine.
If I try to use :
@regions.to_json(:only => [:friendly_id, :name ])
then nothing is returned for the…
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How to use friendly_id to find product?
I installed friendly_id according to the instructions. And use it for products.
For show i use:
@product = Product.friendly.find(params[:id])
And it works.
But I have a couple of question, on its use for other controllers.
In cart_item_controller i…
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Exclude using friendly_id?
I want to run a controller query and exclude the current (self) record. I can use this:
Model.where.not(slug: params[:id])
That works fine until you manage to pass the record id.
Is there a cleaner more direct way to do this?
UPDATE
I clarified my…
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Configure user url with username in it, but no association of model
Using Rails 2.3.8, and friendly_id.
Person model:
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
# Nice URL's in Rails.
def to_param
"#{login.downcase.gsub(/[^[:alnum:]]/,'-')}".gsub(/-{2,}/,'-')
end
end
People controller:
class PeopleController <…
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FriendlyId: undefined method `use_slug?' for nil:NilClass
I am creating a new environment besides production. I copied all the configurations from my production environment, changing what needed to be changed.
As it is the servers do start, but when I do a query I get this exception:
NoMethodError…
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Trying to add :id to the end of paramter in Rails app
I'm trying to modify my url parameter in my app. I'm currently using friendly_id to make the url include the title instead of the id. However I'd like to add the id after the title in the url if possible.
example:
current:…
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